Feral Beast: Battle at Kruger

Friday, August 10, 2007

Battle at Kruger

A Texan tourist kept his cool and caught this epic sequence from the South Africa savannah on his video. The stunning footage, belatedly posted by another tour member on YouTube last May, has captivated nearly ten million viewers.
David Budzinski's scenes of a buffalo herd snatching back a stray calf from the jaws of death and hurling aside its predators-- lions and a croc--
has resonated with a vast audience who cheer on the herd. Professional wildlife photographers are agog at David's lucky timing. Check it out. These are actual feral beasts!

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Feral Beast? Try Lemming

If the press were an animal, what kind of animal would it be? I’ve got my answer. A legion of lemmings, furry and well-intentioned, but ultimately condemned by their nature to follow each other mindlessly off a tall cliff, over the Paris Hilton peak or into the Invade Iraq crevasse. The words “feral beast” certainly wouldn’t come to mind. It’s not particularly accurate or particularly evocative. But that is how the departing British prime minister, Tony Blair, sees journalists: as malicious tormentors who have tried to tear him limb from limb.

--Gal Beckerman of the Columbia Journalism Review

“Journalism is a form of cartography,” write Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach of Pew. “It creates a map for citizens to navigate society. Inflating events for sensation, neglecting others, stereotyping or being disproportionately negative all make a less reliable map.”

"Journalism is good at solving small problems or taking small bites of a big problem. It’s not good at solving big problems." Adapted from David Simon, creator of The Wire.

Retrospective : five decades of journalism as reported by CJR

Fake AP Stylebook reminds us: Unless you're doing a story on the Muppets, you are not a gonzo journalist.

"The once idealized information superhighway has become a parking lot of error, misinformation, rumor and junk." Poynter Institute, advocating a broader definition of who is a journalist.